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Rick Tumlinson

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Smart Money Rating: 93 out of 100

Founder & CEO, SpaceFund

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SpaceFund
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Founder & CEO
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Founder
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Record updated 18 September 2026

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Rick Tumlinson is widely known as the “godfather” of the commercial space movement. A six-time witness before the U.S. Congress, he co-founded the XPRIZE and helped shape the shift from government-only exploration toward a more open, entrepreneurial, and commercially driven frontier in space for investors, founders, policymakers, and the next generation of builders.

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